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The PRH/S&S antitrust suit gets underway (This week in books)

August 5, 2022 by Nathan Bransford 2 Comments

This week! Books! The antitrust lawsuit over Penguin Random House’s proposed acquisition of Simon & Schuster is in full swing. Shira Ovide writes about how the threat posed by Amazon is looming in the background of the trial, and Publishers Lunch ($ links) has some extensive recaps of the testimony so far. The latest prominent […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Amazon, Book Banning, Diversity, Donald Maass, Evan Osnos, Joyce Carol Oates, Kate McKean, Nicole Chung, Penguin Random House

This year in books 2020

December 18, 2020 by Nathan Bransford 2 Comments

This year! Books! This will be the last “This Week in Books” of our godforsaken year 2020, and I wanted to take a minute to reflect on the year that was in the book world. While I was recovering from COVID in early April, I interviewed publishing industry sage Mike Shatzkin on the effects the […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: #BlackLivesMatter, Bookshop.org, Bookstores, Chris Jackson, Christine Carron, Diversity, Jay-Z, Jennie Nash, John le Carré, Joshua Rothman, Mike Shatzkin, pandemics, publishing industry, Stephen King

How to fix a boring story (This week in books)

October 30, 2020 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! These are tough and anxious times for everyone, and it’s tempting to want your book to be the thing that is going to be the thing that lifts your spirits, naturally when it gets published and validated and you become rich and appreciated throughout the realm. At Jane Friedman’s blog, Susan DeFreitas […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Diversity, Genres, Gilbert Bassey, Hilary Mantel, Rachelle Gardner, Susan DeFreitas

Are you willing to stand out from the crowd? (This week in books)

September 18, 2020 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting these past few weeks on what’s next for my creative life and where I want to devote my energy, so this post on the Freelancers Union blog by Justine Clay was just the right thing at the right time: Are you really willing to stand […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Barack Obama, Colin Hester, Diversity, Donald Trump, Justine Clay, literary agents, Macmillan, Matthew Salesses, National Book Awards

Ronan Farrow drops Hachette, employees walk out (This week in books)

March 6, 2020 by Nathan Bransford 9 Comments

This week! Books! Hoo boy we have a lot of links this week and before I get to your weekly dose of publishing controversies, let’s start with some good publishing industry news. Thanks to a generous donation by the wonderful Celeste Ng, We Need Diverse Books is launching a publishing industry intern program that will […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: American Dirt, Celeste Ng, Dan Blank, Diversity, Florence Osmond, Hachette, Jess Walton, Kate Elizabeth Russell, Oprah, Ronan Farrow, Science

The state of diversity in publishing (This week in books)

January 31, 2020 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Book! First up, I’m going to be taking a quick one week blog break to focus on revisions on my new novel and my travels (see above). I’ll still be answering emails though, so feel free to reach out for editing. The blog be back the week of February 10. The fallout from […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: American Dirt, Andrzej Sapkowski, BookEnds, Diversity, Mike Shatzkin, Synopsis

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